The major news for April was the release of VuFind® 9.0 (and, soon after, 9.0.1, to promptly address a bug in the upgrade process that might have inconvenienced some users). You can read the press release or watch the presentation video from the April Community Call for details on what is new in the latest release.
Work is also already underway on code for release 9.1, with several new accessibility improvements either completed or in development, and some enhancements introduced into the test environment to make development more convenient.
The project welcomed a new Registered Service Provider this month: Marmot Library Network, Inc., which specializes in supporting the needs of libraries in Colorado and the surrounding region.
The Project Management Committee continued work in improving documentation, streamlining internationalization workflows and planning for future fundraising. The PMC will soon begin planning for the next VuFind® Summit, which will be held in conjunction with WOLFcon this coming August.
The following items were completed in the past month and were included in release 9.0:
Add autocomplete to form fields:
#2837 Add example import config for SubjectsPlus:
#2825 Add Mink tests for simple container links:
#2829 Add util to purge a deleted record/resource from database:
#2822 Aleph driver: return value from cancelHolds fixed according to ILS driver documentation:
#2815 Always overwrite existing files when copying node modules:
#2832 Avoid broken links being generated by Record View Helper:
#2841-
Enable NFC normalization of test records to avoid warnings:
#2834 Fix active library card check if user has no card selected:
#2819 Fix collapse/expand icons of deferred side facets:
#2839 Fix compact in AbstractRecord::homeAction:
#2824 Fix cookie consent dialog z-index to be below dropdowns:
#2833 Fix: repair SCSS issues revealed by the cookie consent library:
#2846,
#2847 Fix scoping of dc:subject in OJS import:
#2826 Fix(truncate): prevent focus on hidden elements:
#2835 Improve author deduplication:
#2811 KohaRest: improved hold expiration date behavior:
#2823 Prevent endless redirect loop in library card selection:
#2818 Ratings cleanup (remove unused method):
#2828 Remove trailing slashes from void elements:
#2830 Remove unnecessary if's from XSLT:
#2827 Reset focus to bookbag toggle buttons after action:
#2820 Restore access to item status methods and add save status methods:
#2844-
Update chrome-mink-driver dependency:
#2817 Update Google Analytics helper for compatibility with GA4:
#2402 Update language translation files for release 9.0:
VUFIND-1567 Update Vagrantfile for release 9.0:
#2836 Update vanilla-cookieconsent library:
#2831 Upgrade autocomplete.js and move it from lib/ to vendor/:
#2755 Use standard dropdown control for QR codes in results list:
#2809-
The following item was completed in the past month and was included in release 9.0.1:
Fix problems with Blowfish migration:
#2851
The following items were completed in the past month and will be included in release 9.1:
Add a phing task reset_setup for resetting CI environment:
#2848 Add ability to retrieve record links from ILS driver:
#2810 Final changes to make Mink tests pass
HTML validation:
#2838 Fix Lucene query string control character check:
#2843 Improve Mink FeedbackTest:
#2849 Use heading for title in sidefacets:
#2842
This work was opened and then closed with being completed, deferred to be part of a future project:
Record Title labels for checkboxes:
#2812